[QUOTE=grumpyrex;599331]Put Dougie's proposition to him. That'll tell you if his concerns are legit, or if he's just trying to back out of the deal.[/QUOTE]

I will mate

cheers dougie :D

fuck him, a deposit is to secure the vehicle and stop you selling it to other people bfore he gets the cash. Signing a contract??? why you would do that i dont know, anyhow, if he doesnt want it, he loses his money.. simple. Sounds like a fuckin halfwit to me

[QUOTE=MANN;599340]I will mate

cheers dougie :D[/QUOTE]

No need to tell him the deal. Just say OK, the tyres and bodylift will be rectified at no cost to the buyer and the deal will proceed as agreed prior to the deposit being paid. That way you look like you have done everything possible to make him happy. He cannot reasonably ask for any deposit back in that case. (or he has to admit that he's a time waster and never wanted to proceed anyway, in which case you keep the dosh too);)

hah, ethics

[QUOTE=tuna;599420]hah, ethics[/QUOTE]
Business ethics?

Billy Maddison makes me LOL

[QUOTE=perthzed;599414]I'm not talking legally, I'm talking ethically. The guy put down a deposit on the car on the proviso the car was mechanically sound, which it was. But it is also illegal. And it's a bit ridiculous that the seller said he would have quite happily told the buyer it was illegal, if he'd asked, but he didn't :rolleyes: Bit like forgetting to mention to the bird you just shagged you've got AIDS "well she never asked...."

If it was a case of guy puts down a deposit & gets cold feet for no reason, then sayonara deposit. But this isn't the case here.There's been a certain degree of deception, the seller has failed to disclose critical information to the buyer. And if this was the USA or Canada he'd have broken the law.But we're in Australia so I guess he gets to keep his $500.[/QUOTE]

FYI, you're an idiot.

if you didn't want the cqar perthzed you shouldn't have laid a deposit down :D

A little more to the front...

I think if he really wanted his deposit back he could fight and get it.
It would not be hard to argue that "major mechanical fault" and "the vehicle is not road worthy/illegal" could be seen as the same thing in a small claims case.
I really do think that not telling someone that a vehicle is "not legal for road use" would be a satisfactory out for any offer to purchase.

Having said that it would cost him more than that for the first appointment with a decent lawyer.

I do agree with you on the "I'm not a car yard" attitude though.
If you want warantee's and all that go to a yard.

The fella sounds like he had no idea any way and neither did his old man.
If it was me I would give him his deposit back and send him on his way.

sounds to me like he needs to 'Mann' (ahahaha see what I did there) the fuck up and grow some balls. Clearly he's picked your car out of the bunch of hilux's for sale for the simple reason of how it looks. Dad or Mum has put some doubt in his mind, and now he's trying to back his way out of the deal faster than Ricky Nixon in an ACA interview.

Having recently sold my hilux which was in the same state as this, mint condition, but pushing the boundaries where it comes to legal/illegal with wheels/tyres/suspension, people who are coming to look at it, should know that this is the case. I bought my hilux as it was, with full knowledge that on a bad day, I could be in a bit of strife.